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Donald Trump’s second term has given Europe one fight after another. Tariffs, Greenland, Ukraine, and Iran have all had their turn. Read more
New Zealand has new planning laws. They passed in September and replace the Resource Management Act. Read more
Our dollar has fallen a lot since 24 August. On 30 September it was down 6% against the US dollar, 3.2% against the Australian dollar and 4.8% against the Reserve Bank's basket of currencies. Read more
Imagining 19th-century schooling might bring to mind characters like Thomas Gradgrind from Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times. Gradgrind was a disciplinarian, obsessed with drilling facts into pupils' resistant brains. Read more
Five weeks out from an election, bottom lines are everywhere. Almost every minor party has one. Read more
The Treasury's pre-election update showed spending up, revenue down and debt rising after three years of a government elected on restraint. Oliver and Damien ask who ends up as finance minister after 7 November, and whether any of them will confront superannuation and interest heading for $44 billion by 2031. Read more
Might the plunge in the value of the New Zealand dollar in the last five weeks make you poorer? The reason for asking is that, on 29 September, a New Zealand dollar bought 5.1% fewer US dollars than on 24 August, 3.1% fewer Australian dollars and 4.6% fewer units of the Reserve Bank’s basket of currencies. Read more
Our Chief Economist Dr Eric Crampton joined a panel of economists and commentators, Hilmarie Schulze (BERL), Max Rashbrooke, and VUW Students' Association president Aiden Donaghue, chaired by Infometrics' Brad Olsen, for Victoria University of Wellington's Aotearoa Votes election series, discussing what's working and not working in New Zealand's economy. Read more
In this episode, Michael talks with Dame Elizabeth Rata about her documentary lecture series on the history of education in New Zealand.
They discuss the 19th-century origins of free, compulsory and secular schooling, why Māori leaders pushed for village schools taught in English and Rata's argument that sociocultural knowledge has displaced subject knowledge in New Zealand classrooms.
The New Zealand Initiative · How New Zealand built its education system on classical liberal values Read more
If Labour forms government after the election, it will forgive a portion of some student loans. The policy announced on Sunday aims to leave graduates “with less debt, more of their income in their pocket, and a better chance to build their lives here in New Zealand.” The policy will certainly reduce the outstanding student loan balances of eligible borrowers. Read more